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OAS accession Detail for 9200255
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| Title: | Temperature profile and water depth data collected from USS NICHOLSON using BT and XBT casts in the NE/NW Atlantic Ocean and other seas from 1992-05-13 to 1992-07-14 (NCEI Accession 9200255) |
| Abstract: | Temperature profile and water depth data were collected using BT and XBT casts from the USS NICHOLSON in the Northeast / Northwest Atlantic Ocean, Bay of Biscay, and North Sea. Data were collected from 13 May 1992 to 14 July 1992 by the US Navy; Ships of Opportunity (SOOP). Data has been processed by NODC to the NODC standard Bathythermograph (XBT) (C116) format. The C116/C118 format contains temperature-depth profile data obtained using expendable bathythermograph (XBT) instruments. Cruise information, position, date and time were reported for each observation. The data record was comprised of pairs of temperature-depth values. Unlike the MBT Data File, in which temperature values were recorded at uniform 5 m intervals, the XBT data files contained temperature values at non-uniform depths. These depths were recorded at the minimum number of points ("inflection points") required to accurately define the temperature curve. Standard XBTs can obtain profiles to depths of either 450 or 760 m. With special instruments, measurements can be obtained to 1830 m. Prior to July 1994, XBT data were routinely processed to one of these standard types. XBT data are now processed and loaded directly in to the NODC Ocean Profile Data Base (OPDB). Historic data from these two data types were loaded into the OPDB. |
| Date received: | 19920922 |
| Start date: | 19920513 |
| End date: | 19920714 |
| Seanames: | North Atlantic Ocean |
| West boundary: | -75.88 |
| East boundary: | -5.4 |
| North boundary: | 60.82 |
| South boundary: | 33.98 |
| Observation types: | physical, profile |
| Instrument types: | bathythermograph - BT, bathythermograph - XBT |
| Datatypes: | water depth, WATER TEMPERATURE |
| Submitter: | |
| Submitting institution: | US Navy; Ships of Opportunity |
| Collecting institutions: | US Navy; Ships of Opportunity |
| Contributing projects: | |
| Platforms: | NICHOLSON (32NN) |
| Number of observations: | 43 |
| Supplementary information: | Note: Metadata for this accession were extracted from a legacy database maintained by the U.S. National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC). The design of the database did not exactly reflect the FGDC Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata (CSDGM). Principal Investigator (PI) and organization contact information accurately represents all available information from the legacy database at the time that this description was created. However, proper attribution of a PI to a specific institution or the role (submitting or collecting) taken by an institution may not be correct due to inexact mapping between fields in the legacy database and the CSDGM. Due to this uncertainty, the contact information was initially recorded in the Supplemental Information element of the CSDGM description. To develop more accurate metadata, NCEI reviews metadata for all accessions on an ongoing basis. Points of contact for this data set include: Contact info: Agency: US NAVY; SHIPS OF OPPORTUNITY PI: N/A Address: address: 4640 JEWEL ST., 204 city: SAN DIEGO state: CA postal: 92109-31331 country: UNITED STATES |
| Availability date: | 19920922 |
| Metadata version: | 5 |
| Keydate: | 2003-10-24 17:43:49+00 |
| Editdate: | 2023-02-15 13:53:02+00 |